The ZDF strengthens Jan Böhmermann in the affair of his satire on the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan backs. The sender could create an expertise of the law firm Redeker Sellner Dahs. These come to the conclusion “that the disputed sequence including the so-called ‘libelous poem’ was permitted by law and, therefore, the limits have not been exceeded for criminality,” ZDF said in a statement to the prosecutor Mainz.
the constitutional guarantee Satire freedom entails therefore precisely in connection with matters of public interest and the use of “gross stylistic devices, regardless of whether they meet personal or general flavor ideas,” it said in the ZDF statement. It lies “in the nature of satire, through targeted drawings, which are also applied to foment emotions and reactions of the public to draw attention to an issue carefully and to criticize”.Nevertheless deleted Böhmer’s “libelous poem” from the ZDF media library. The editor of ZDF Committee had made on Thursday morning on the internal mail a letter in all offices of the ZDF headquarters on Lerchenberg distribute in Mainz, where the desire was expressed to set the video in question again. The station responded with a different opinion: “It is the good law of the editor committee, to represent that opinion but ZDF maintains its decision not to distribute the controversial ‘libelous poem’ because the passage is not the quality requirements and regulations of. ZDF corresponds. ”
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